Briton dies fleeing drug bust

By The Nation

 

 

A Briton, 60, was fatally injured while apparently speeding to escape being caught with drugs in Udon Thani on Thursday night, police said.

 

Police said David John Sewell was fatally injured when his Honda Civic crashed into the rear of a trailer truck on the Udon Thani-Sakon Nakhon road in Ban Nong Kae village in Tambon Nongkham in Muang district at about 9pm.

 

Sewell's car was spotted parked in Ban Nong Sai village by a patrol car led by Pol Lt Col Pattanawong Chanpol, deputy chief of the Muang Udon Thani.

 

Pattanapong noticed that the driver's door was open so he approached but Sewell drove off and crashed into a truck.

He died at Udon Thani provincial hospital.

 

Police found a tiny bag of marijuana on the front passenger seat.

 

 

Pattanawong said found four more small bags of marijuana, 80 methamphetamine pills, five bags of crystal meth and seven bags of cocaine.

 

Police later found out that Sewell had been staying at the Ton Tal Resort in Ban Nong Bu village in Tambon Samprao for a few years.

 

His Thai wife was there and was informed about the accident by the police.

 

The wife, who came from Bangkok, claimed that she knew nothing about the drugs and she thought Sewell drove out every night to drink with friends in Udon Thani.

 

Police found more marijuana hidden in the room and detained the wife for further questioning.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30348930

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-06-29

 

You would think that at his age he would know better.  Guess not.

 

What a fool. While i am a pro choice person when it comes to drugs, i am also of the opinion that when you do get busted you go quietly and take your punishment like a man.

 

I guess the only saving grace here is that nobody else got hurt in this incident. Awful spectacle all round

Looking at a long prison term for dealing and deportation , took his chances and lost .

Goodness me..

Very sad, though I guess he realised that caught with that lot, he would have been finishing his days in a Thai prison. It seems a lot for personal use, so I suspect he may have been supplementing his income with a bit of dealing. Not a clever thing to do in this country at all.

you have to ask yourself who would he be selling to?
wouldnt be those degenerate thai youths so who left?

3 minutes ago, despicable alien said:

you have to ask yourself who would he be selling to?
wouldnt be those degenerate thai youths so who left?

It doesn't matter as he should have known better-why flout the laws of the country which is your host?

Another candidate for the Darwin awards.. .. ferang selling drugs in Thailand!  <deleted>... 

  So he fleed at speed with the evil weed an ended up deed? Enough seed!

One less loser around. Cheerio.

19 minutes ago, despicable alien said:

keeping the thai wife in the manner she demands?

Gosh its the Thai's fault again...........nicely worked D.A, for a moment there I thought they might just blame the farang dealer....

19 minutes ago, Maradona 10 said:

One less loser around. Cheerio.

He was a friend of mine for many years.

He was from Iceland.

Probably too busy looking in the mirror at what was chasing him, to pay sufficient attention to the road in front of him.

Very sad for a 60 year old man to be mixed up in drugs. Even sadder that it has cost him his life.

I am 2 years away from 60 and know better than to deal in drugs, let alone take them at this age.

 

Sure in the younger days tried them all except the big H, never really did anything for me, although I did see a lot of school friends not make it to their 18th birthdays.

 

To young to die, and not the way I would want to go, RIP

Some pathetic people on this thread.

Drug addiction is an illness and causes sufferers to do things they wouldn't normally do.

Please show some compassion, this could happen to anyone.

He was a resident in Khon Keen some years ago, and clean at the time. I believe he had recently had a baby. RIP.

1 hour ago, Maradona 10 said:

One less loser around. Cheerio.

Pathetic, you should be ashamed of yourself.

2 hours ago, Laza 45 said:

Another candidate for the Darwin awards.. .. ferang selling drugs in Thailand!  <deleted>... 

What on earth has the color of one's skin got to do with it?

2 hours ago, swanny321 said:

  So he fleed at speed with the evil weed an ended up deed? Enough seed!

Indeed.

Strange how people are dishing out drug users are an illness. The chap was clearly much more than a user and a more accurate description is drug dealer. 

 

Drug dealers know the risks involved and the truth is they are scum and the likelist customers for this guy was probably his so called mates he pushes to.

 

 

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Police said David John Sewell was fatally injured when his Honda Civic crashed into the rear of a trailer truck on the Udon Thani-Sakon Nakhon road in Ban Nong Kae village in Tambon Nongkham in Muang district at about 9pm.

Sewell's car was spotted parked in Ban Nong Sai village by a patrol car led by Pol Lt Col Pattanawong Chanpol, deputy chief of the Muang Udon Thani.

 

The two things that baffle me are the police being out at "9pm" and a "patrol car". Neither of those two seem to be a trait of the BIB.

I've never seen the police patrolling anything, for months - years - let alone that time of night. They must have either been lost, or their car had broken down earlier.

 

4 hours ago, Neeranam said:

Some pathetic people on this thread.

Drug addiction is an illness and causes sufferers to do things they wouldn't normally do.

Please show some compassion, this could happen to anyone.

He was a resident in Khon Keen some years ago, and clean at the time. I believe he had recently had a baby. RIP.

 ''this could happen to anyone'

 

Erh, no it couldn't. How many 60 year old drug dealers are there that are trying to escape from the police?? Pathetic.

6 hours ago, Johnniey said:

He was a friend of mine for many years.

He was from Iceland.

 

And this is his facebook page : facebook.com/davidjohn.sewell

 

I believe he is originally from Scotland but moved to Iceland at young age. 

R.I.P  to your friend .

 

He looks like a family man to me , was he addicted to drugs ?  And why do it in Thailand when you know the risks here? 

 

2 hours ago, Maradona 10 said:

Why, because a no mark like you says so?? Your pal was a loser. Get over it.

You won't make any friends here with that lousy attitude, especially as some of his friends are members here and the deceased leaves a wife and young daughter.  Grow up.

 

Sad.  Get caught up in that, panic and there you go. 

how could it be! they have left out the most important critical piece of information. we are never going to be able to determine now whether he was a real bad crim or just a casual panhandler! yes they didnt tell us whether he was on visa overstay or not, how inept.

15 hours ago, Just1Voice said:

You would think that at his age he would know better.  Guess not.

 

He wouldn't be the first person involved with drugs over the age of 60 ?

14 hours ago, ThreeEyedRaven said:

Probably too busy looking in the mirror at what was chasing him, to pay sufficient attention to the road in front of him.

Very sad for a 60 year old man to be mixed up in drugs. Even sadder that it has cost him his life.

Right, and if he had been a Thai, posters would be calling him the scum of the Earth and claiming this is typical Thainess.

 

Just another peddler of poison off the planet, he got his just desserts. 

 

 

16 hours ago, Just1Voice said:

You would think that at his age he would know better.  Guess not.

 

desperate people do desperate things to stay in Thailand. 

13 hours ago, Neeranam said:

Some pathetic people on this thread.

Drug addiction is an illness and causes sufferers to do things they wouldn't normally do.

Please show some compassion, this could happen to anyone.

He was a resident in Khon Keen some years ago, and clean at the time. I believe he had recently had a baby. RIP.

I believe he had recently had a baby.  

sounds to me like he just could not get anything right with his life at his age !

 

people make choices in life, no excuses for taking or selling DRUGS, 

their toe rags.